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memory sticks.

Posted: 2005-07-28 02:46pm
by Zac Naloen
Quite simply, i bought 1gb of corsair memory sticks and they don't fit in my computers memory slots.. wtf?

Posted: 2005-07-28 02:48pm
by The Wookiee
You mean RAM? What do you have, SDRAM or DDR-RAM? What kind of RAM did you get? Are you inserting it the right way?

Posted: 2005-07-28 03:07pm
by Akaramu Shinja
Basicly, you have different types of RAM, and as such not every type fits in every slot.

Posted: 2005-07-28 03:11pm
by SPOOFE
You may have picked up DDR-2 RAM instead of DDR, or the other way around. DDR has 184 (I think?) pins, while DDR-2 has 240. Obviously incompatible. Hope you can return them.

Although if you DID pick up some Memory Sticks and tried to install them in your RAM slots, that would be very funny. :D

Posted: 2005-07-28 03:26pm
by Praxis
And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.

Posted: 2005-07-28 09:03pm
by Keevan_Colton
Praxis wrote:And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.
SODIMM's

Posted: 2005-07-28 10:30pm
by Praxis
Keevan_Colton wrote:
Praxis wrote:And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.
SODIMM's
Yeah, that stuff :P
Of course, you'd have to be So Dim to try to put those in a desktop...

Posted: 2005-07-29 02:03pm
by Zac Naloen
heh, i picked up the ddr2. wasn't paying enough attention.

easily being fixed... cept now i have another problem.

My pc plain won't start up. its getting power, all the fans are spinning.

Its just won't do anything..

My motherboard has a problem in that it never reads my card correctly, so i have to play with the settings in the bios to make it read the processor properly (ie overclock). its doing it after doing that. neither my old processor or my new work anymore (no reason why the old shouldn't) so whats likely to be broken in this situation? Motherboard?

Posted: 2005-07-29 02:51pm
by Akaramu Shinja
Will it post? Try clearing the bios first if not.

Posted: 2005-07-29 04:26pm
by SPOOFE
Of course, you'd have to be So Dim to try to put those in a desktop...
But a single desktop RAM slot has enough space for two SODIMMs!!